From owner-freebsd-fs Fri Oct 29 10:10:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B77CC14E7E for ; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 10:10:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr02.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA06986; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 10:10:30 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr02.primenet.com(206.165.6.202) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd006899; Fri Oct 29 10:10:22 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA16646; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 10:10:15 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199910291710.KAA16646@usr02.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Journaling To: ken@kdm.org (Kenneth D. Merry) Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 17:10:14 +0000 (GMT) Cc: don@calis.blacksun.org, ken@kdm.org, ticso@cicely.de, grog@lemis.com, bright@wintelcom.net, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199910280305.VAA13281@panzer.kdm.org> from "Kenneth D. Merry" at Oct 27, 99 09:05:04 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > This is a disklabel limitation, not a filesystem limitation. I believe > > > that Solaris x86 may be able to do 16 partitions (or so a guy at Sun told > > > me). > > > > I will have to check this out. Thanks for the info. Is there any reason > > that disklabel has this limit? > > It has been that way for a long time. I'm not sure why the limit is 8, but > it is. (Someone might know. I suspect it was just an arbitrary value > chosen a long time ago.) Changing it might break backwards compatibility, > though. NetBSD currently supports 16. Yes, it breaks backward compatability. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message